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they are to be considered white. These skin tone variations are strongly linked with the “psychological and economic privileges attributed to whiteness” . Blackness is associated with being on the lower end of the socioeconomic hierarchy . In the US Colonial period, Miscegenation laws described the interbreeding of what were presumed to be distinct human races. Miscegenation gave white planters an economic advantage by increasing their slave holdings because the status of children followed that of their mother. Miscegenation between black slaves and poor white indentured servants caused colonists of the 1660s to decide whether children were black and slaves or white and free. The answer can be found in colonial legislature who used skin tone as a main indicator for mulattoes . In the Upper South (the area reaching south from
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Could not agree with this. Just because people with darker skin are not outright separated from society does not mean that they are not systematically looked down upon for many things that consider their face and body (ex: marriage, modelling, jobs that involve making an impression on potential local
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Colorism assigns privileges based on skin tone: "Your skin is white! You should get the job!" In Asia, this is definitely not the case. What we have is skin-tone preference. People prefer non-tanned skin, as tanning has historically been associated with manual labor. If your skin is inborn darker, as
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I agree with your observations and I think the article steers way too far off topic with the obsessive focus on skin creams, especially from an Indian or
African American POV. I would also like to add that many people in East Asia embrace tanned skin (as is mentioned in the China section). It's not
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Perpetuating the social constructs of race and skin color means putting an emphasis on “morphological differences like the broadness of the nose, the curl of the hair and the fullness of the lips” as important characteristics in determining a person’s race. The lighter a person’s skin the likelier
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Whiteness: Trials of Racial Determination in the Nineteenth-Century South, 108 YALE L.J. 109, 137-41 (1998) N F. HANEY LOPEZ, WHITE BY LAW: THE LEGAL CONSTRUCTION OF RACE 197-202 (1996)
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as lopsided as some foreigners seem to think it is and I'm glad the article talks about the tan obsession in the West.
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